Trousers.



PATENTED JUNE 13, 1905.

P. G. WHITE. TROUSERS, APPLICATION FILED MAY 2. 1903.

UNITED STATES Patented June 13, 1905.

PATENT Orrica.

TROUSERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 792,097, dated June 13, 1905. Application filed May 2,1903. Serial No. 155,248.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK G. WVHITE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Trousers, of which the following is a specification.

More or less trouble has always been experienced with trouser-pockets, particularly those of the character called side pockets. WVith side pockets, for example, the construction of the trousers has heretofore been such that the pocket-openings sooner or later become stretched out of shape and have a tendency to gape and produce an unsightly appearance. Furthermore, the old construction is such that the pockets are quite liable to turn inside out, especially when a moist or gloved hand is thrust into the pocket, and this latter objection is true also of the other old styles of pockets.

In a pair of trousers characterized by my invention the pockets are connected with the button and buttonhole-flies of the trousers. In this way the cloth of the trousers immediately outside or over the pockets is relieved of the strain which ordinarily causes the pockets to gape and present an unsightly appearance. It will be readily understood, however, that regardless of the character or location of the pockets my invention also serves to relieve the front portion of the trousers from circumferential strain, and thereby prevents the cloth from stretching and presenting an unsightly appearance.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of the upper portion of a pair of trousers embodying the principles of my invention, a portion of the cloth being shown cut and folded back for the purpose of bringing into view the connection between the pocket and the fly-stitching. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the upper front portion of the trousers shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective showing the connection between the pocket and the fly-seam.

The trousers can be made up in any suitable form or style. As illustrated, the trousers are provided with a pair of side pockets 1.

These pockets can be of the ordinary form: but instead of hanging free, as they usually do, the inner edges of the pockets are connected with the fly-stitching 2 and 3 of the buttonhole-fly 2 and the button-fly 3 This can be accomplished in any suitable manner. As illustrated, the connecting medium between the pockets and fly-stitching consists of the stays t and 5. Preferably each stay is as long or a little longer than the pocket-openings 6; but other arrangements can be adopted for connecting the pockets with the two flies of the trousers. By so doing the cloth of the trousers immediately outside or over the pockets is relieved of all strain, and consequently there is no tendency on the part of the cloth to draw and cause an unsightly gaping of the pocket-openings. In other words, the pockets sustain the strain or pull between the side seams and the flies or front portion of the trousers.

It is obvious that by connecting the inner edges of the pockets in any suitable manner with the fly-stitching the cloth immediately outside the poeketsthat is to say, the front portions of the trousers-is relieved from all circumferential strain, thereby preventing the cloth from being stretched or pulled out of shape regardless of whether the pocketopenings are vertical, oblique, or horizontal, the only request as far as this aspect of the invention is concerned being that the pockets themselves are so connected as to constitute inner connections between the side seams of the trousers and the fly-stitching.

What I claim as my invention is 1. A pair of trousers provided with side pockets having their inner edges connected vertically with the fly-stitching to an extent corresponding substantially to the length of the pocket-openings.

2. A pair of trousers provided with side pockets connected with the fly-stitching by means of stays, said stays extending vertically for substantially the length of the pocketopenings, whereby the inner Walls of the pockets are adapted to act as restraining members to prevent the pockets from gaping.

3. A pair of trousers provided at each side With an opening, pockets having inner and; as stays for relieving the front portions of the IQ outer Walls connected With the side portions trousers from circumferential strain.

of the trousers having the said openings, said Signed by me at Chicago, Illinois, this 29th openings affording access to said pockets, and day of April, 1903. 5 a vertically-extending strip of cloth connecting the front edge of each pocket with the fly-stitching of the trousers, said vertically- Witnesses:

arranged strips of cloth and the inner Walls E. A. GARDINER,

of the pockets being thereby adapted to serve WM. A. HARDERS.

FRANK G. WHITE. 

